incidentally after reading account after account of its practice in the zuozhuan I do kinda want to learn milfoil divination
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my understanding is it's more or less like tarot, you generate a series of meaning-loaded symbols, this case permutation from one to another
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and then the skill of "reading" is adlibbing a narrative that uses those meanings in a clever way
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I wrote pdox aars (play a game, construct a narrative around the events that transpire) at one point and it was really enjoyable
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because it's basically a restricted form of storytelling, and like all restrictions (verse, most prominently) forces defter creativity
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in this case the restriction being that the events are predetermined in a semi-controlled semi-random fashion
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and the act of creation is crafting meaning and direction for them, forming a logic-narrative that gives them structure and significance
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